Towards Flexible and Adaptive Human-Robot Collaborations via Event-driven Microservices
Journal
International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA)
Type
conference paper
Date Issued
2025-09
Author(s)
Abstract
Robotic co-working relies on the perception of the human and the robot's surroundings to ensure safe operations. Building the respective means for sensing into the hardware and software of a robot is expensive and results in inflexible, non-extensible routines that are hardwired into the robot's programming. In this work we investigate the application of modern software architecture principles to this problem. We propose an architecture that relies on event-driven microservices to provide fine-grained access to robots and other machines. Complex event processing (CEP) allows to augment the microservices with advanced reactive behavior by incorporating events from external sensors, process them, and control the machines accordingly. The programming of the CEP applications is facilitated by SQL-like queries that support domain experts with flexibly connecting sensors, specifying their processing, and corresponding actions.
Language
English (United States)
Keywords
Software architecture
human-robot collaboration
event processing
microservices
HSG Classification
contribution to scientific community
Refereed
Yes
Publisher
IEEE
Pages
4
Event Title
30th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA 2025)
Event Location
Porto, Portugal
Event Date
9-12 September, 2025
Subject(s)
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